Francis Ford Coppola surrounded by his family to celebrate his latest film Megalopolis

It was in the La Petite Maison restaurant, on the outskirts of Cannes’ famous Palm Beach, which was completely transformed, that Francis Ford Coppola celebrated his last film: A metropolisOn the occasion of the ultra-exclusive dinner of the house of Chanel.

The latest film from the 85-year-old master of New Hollywood was certainly not unanimous at its screening last Thursday. An unknown filmed object, an indigestible pudding, a vague political fable, it stars Adam Driver, Natalie Emanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight. A damn movie with a respectable budget already, maybe a cult movie in a few years, here’s the worst we can wish for it…

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At the same time, everyone was there to celebrate the iconic director, certainly diminished; he had just lost his wife, Eleanor, on April 12, but was adoring and had no shortage of energy; then we saw him at Albany’s private club, the Cleret, happy until the end. at night, not on the dance floor anyway, but very alert and elegant with his cane and panama hat.

The dinner at Little House was a happy one, despite the exciting Adam Driver, a giant who finds it difficult to have photographers in the same room as him. Friends of the house of Chanel, Anna Mouglalis and Carole Bouquet, flew between the tables, while the patriarch’s bodyguard, his sister Talia Shire, son Roman or granddaughter Romy Mars (Sofia Coppola’s daughter, was absent) watched tenderly. The Coppola clan, a film dynasty, is also a family at heart.